ULRICH, JOHANN CASPAR. Sammlung Juedischer Geschichten....in dem XIII und folgenden Jahrhunderten bis auf MDCCLX in der Schweiz [“Collection of Jewish History in the 13th and Following Centuries in Switzerland.”]

(SWITZERLAND)

n.p. (Nicolaus Köllner)

Basle

1768

first edition. Allegorical engraved frontispiece of the Jews requesting protection by Helvetia. Two engraved plates of synagogues of Langnau and Endingen. One folding plate of funeral scene. Occasional use of Hebrew type. A Fine Copy

Prijs, 292

Johann Caspar Ulrich (1705-1768) studied Hebrew and Talmud in Bremen with a Jewish apostate and later in Lengnau with Jacob Guggenheim. His Sammlung Juedischer Geschichten is the most important and comprehensive history of the Jews of Switzerland, with special emphasis on Zurich. Ulrich, a Swiss Protestant theologian, preached tolerance of the Jews. In his Foreword, he writes: Nehmet denn, acheinu Bnei Israel, liebe Israeliten, dieses Buch, von einem Mann der Euch liebet…Mein Absehen gehet nur dahin, Euch zu zeigen, wie es euern Voraltern in der Schweitzerischen Golus ergangen sene [“Accept this book, dear Israelites, from a man who loves you…My view is only to show you how your forefathers fared in the Swiss Exile.”] See Vol. XV, col. 1527